The £3,000 home-brewery kit

[Serpo]

The £3,000 home-brewery kit that could tempt you out of the pub forever















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Last updated at 12:27 AM on 27th November 2011


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It takes just seven days to produce 40 pints of beer using the machine, and the process has been designed to be as simple as possible



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/24/article-2065450-0EEBF3F900000578-84_634x570.jpg The beer is fermented and carbonated in the 40-pint stainless-steel tank, eliminating the need for bottles or kegs

The WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery takes home brewing up a few levels; audaciously, the New Zealand makers claim the beer it brews is superior to anything made commercially.
It takes just seven days to produce 40 pints of beer using the machine, and the process has been designed to be as simple as possible.

On day one, you clean and sterilise the tank, then add the water, malt and yeast.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/24/article-2065450-0EEBF48D00000578-447_634x400.jpg The dials on the top control the temperature and pressure within the tank. The pressure needs to be checked every day during brewing to ensure perfect carbonation


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/24/article-2065450-0EEBF42100000578-595_306x360.jpg Perfection doesn't come cheap, of course. The Personal Brewery costs around £2,700

Currently, WilliamsWarn sells ingredients for summer ale, blonde ale and English pale ale (cider, ginger beer and sparkling wine are all in the pipeline). You then set the temperature and pressure. And that’s pretty much it.

Towards the end of the week, the sediment bottle is removed, the beer is cooled and a clarifi cation agent is flushed through (curiously, using a SodaStream CO2 cylinder). On day seven, it’s ready to pour.

The one-tank design eliminates the beer’s exposure to the air, keeping it fresher.

And the whole process is temperature-controlled, which makes for better brewing and a perfectly chilled pint.

Perfection doesn’t come cheap, of course. The Personal Brewery costs around £2,700 (or approximately 670 pints).

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[osoab]

That's no fun. You can't even watch the yeasties moving.

[BrewTech]

Sorry guys, brewing beer ain't a new thing. Anybody that promises great beer in 7 days is a snake oil salesman. I don't care how technicool the setup looks. I'll stick with the old-fashioned, time-proven way, as I am today.

[Serpo]

No bottles to clean

[BrewTech]

No bottles to clean

There's always kegging...

[osoab]

http://www.kegworks.com/images/blogpost/mrBeerKit.jpg

I would save 3000 pounds and buy this. I would be the results would be the same unfortunately there are no flashy lights and pressure gauges.

[osoab]

No bottles to clean


Use big bottles! ;D

[Bigjon]

No bottles to clean

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None here either.

[BrewTech]

http://www.kegworks.com/images/blogpost/mrBeerKit.jpg

I would save 3000 pounds and buy this. I would be the results would be the same unfortunately there are no flashy lights and pressure gauges.

Exactly what I was thinking. If I was going to spend several thou on a brewing setup, hmmm... maybe


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[Glass]

nice idea. Pays for itself in a year or less.

Down here we have these micro breweries where you can go and choose from about 50 beers. They will cook and brew up your beer for you. In 2 weeks time you go back with 12 dozen small bottles (stubbies) and bottle your beer. They have canning machines as well so you can buy the empty cans and can it up if you prefer. Beer is preservative free so it needs to be kept chilled.

[BrewTech]

nice idea. Pays for itself in a year or less.

Down here we have these micro breweries where you can go and choose from about 50 beers. They will cook and brew up your beer for you. In 2 weeks time you go back with 12 dozen small bottles (stubbies) and bottle your beer. They have canning machines as well so you can buy the empty cans and can it up if you prefer. Beer is preservative free so it needs to be kept chilled.

We have one here too. I tasted the beer my brother pulled out of that place. A hefeweizen, apparently. Garbage.

Since then, my brother has been doing his own homebrewing, and it might just be that he is making better beer than I am these days.

Making beer is too important a job to sublet out.

[osoab]

making beer is too important a job to sublet out.

qft

[Libertytree]

Me and K-os are getting ready to brew our 1st batch and as of right now I have less than $200 invested, I still need to acquire 3 cases of bottles, caps and a capper and we're all set. It's my goal to eventually always have 3 cases or more of beer bottled and ready to drink. I know I can break the costs down even further by buying some of the ingredients in bulk, further reducing the cost per case. The fancy machine looks like nothing but a whole lot of expensive hype to me and just another rich guys toys that will collect dust after one use.

BTW BT, I really dig your new sig line!

[Nomoss]

I don't know if I have $500 in my 1792oz setup??
I have not put beer in a bottle in 20 years.
1792oz is 14 gals
Have a hard time keeping beer here as all the buts come by
for some. Hey can U make this or can U make that?
Yes I can make that. But the best is when they see the
Light as in. The lightning! Can I say sill as night??
Thanks for the post.

[joboo]

^^^ I tried using an online language translator...no luck.

:p

[osoab]

Me and K-os are getting ready to brew our 1st batch and as of right now I have less than $200 invested, I still need to acquire 3 cases of bottles, caps and a capper and we're all set. It's my goal to eventually always have 3 cases or more of beer bottled and ready to drink. I know I can break the costs down even further by buying some of the ingredients in bulk, further reducing the cost per case. The fancy machine looks like nothing but a whole lot of expensive hype to me and just another rich guys toys that will collect dust after one use.

BTW BT, I really dig your new sig line!


Good luck Lib. What kind are you two brewing?

Go to a local bar that sells better beer and have them save the bottles. You could pony up for some Grolsh bottles. Those would be worth it.
You could drink a whole bunch of beer that is in bottles that can be capped. This all depends on how your liver is feeling.

If you have a local homebrew supplier, you should be able to find a capper that is within a tight budget. I would buy one that will cap taller bottles this way you are always covered on bottle height. I prefer one with a pull down handle, better leverage.

[BrewTech]

Good luck Lib. What kind are you two brewing?

Go to a local bar that sells better beer and have them save the bottles. You could pony up for some Grolsh bottles. Those would be worth it.
You could drink a whole bunch of beer that is in bottles that can be capped. This all depends on how your liver is feeling.

If you have a local homebrew supplier, you should be able to find a capper that is within a tight budget. I would buy one that will cap taller bottles this way you are always covered on bottle height. I prefer one with a pull down handle, better leverage.

This is all good advice. Being that I don't normally drink beer with twist off caps, I find myself overloaded with useable bottles on a regular basis. Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are all breweries that sell relatively inexpensive beer whose bottles are great for refilling.

I have been using a two-lever handheld capper for years, and it works great. It came with the starter brewing kit I bought when I started.

http://cdn.nexternal.com/homebrew/images/1000.jpg

The one pictured is about 15.00 if you buy it separately.

[Libertytree]

We have a choice between Light and Wheat and I'm leaning towards the Wheat as it was recommended to go with the Saaz hops I bought.

Getting the bottles from a bar would be a better option but I'm new around here and I'm a dude...maybe K-os would have better luck in this area? They'd fall all over themselves to help her and we'd have 20 cases in no time ;) Still though, $12 for a case of bottles ain't that steep.

After the initial equipment costs, I want to see just how cheap I can keep myself in beer for a week/month. Not being a beer snob, if I can make a beer better than Budweiser and reduce the $$ spent then I'm batting 1000 and if it's anything like the savings I realized rolling my own smokes I will have found .25 acres of Utopia!

Who knows....with just the right recipe and hitting the lottery maybe I'll get one of these and call it Libertytree Lager ;D


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